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In fact we virtually shutthem down the first 10 minutes. Wejust did a few things to kind of rat-tle their cage some and they didn'thave any response at all."ACU led 33-28 at the half.The Pioneers will join the LSCnext season. McCoy said they willbe a good addition to the con-ference but they will need time tobuild their program.This weekend ACU will take tothe road again as it confrontsCameron University in LawtonOkla. Saturday. The Lady Catswill face CentralState Monday inEdmond Okla.McCoy said Cameron wasstronger than CSU last year but hehas heard that Central has improvedthis season.The Lady Aggies lost two startersfrom last season but recruited wellMcCoy said. However someplovers have been declared academ-ically ineligible."I heard that they lost their 6-3girl with grades and then I heardthat they have got some kind of of-ficial protest and got her back"McCoy said. "So whatever; we'rejust going to have to wait and see."Cameron was picked fourth in theLSC preseason poll.The Lady Bronchos only hadeight scholarships last season buthave 12 this year. McCoy said theyhave recruited well and strengthen-ed their program.CSU posted a 3-11 record againstLSC competition last season andwas picked to finish eighth in thepreseason poll.Track team to continue indoor seasonBy JANA HUNTERSports StallThe men's track team is scheduledto compete at Lubbock ChristianUniversity Saturday. The fieldevents begin at 9:30 a.m. and therunning events at 10 a.m.Coach Jerry Dyes said about 16or 17 Wildcats will travel to themeet."We're still not committingeveryone particularly in the betterevents" Dyes said. "We're stilltreating this like a progressiveWomen to competein first meet of seasonBy DAWN ELIZABETH TREATAssociate Sports EditorThe women's track team will gearup for the season with a low-keymeet at Lubbock Christian Univer-sity this weekend said women'strack coach Wes Kittley.j "I'm anxious to get started and'see just what kind of shape we'rein" he said. "This is not one of thetoughest meets we'll go to but it's abeginning."Kittley said he hopes to take 14team members to compete but in-juries could cut that number down.Debra Tinnell freshman fromLubbock will not compete on herhome turf this weekend because of aback injury that has troubled hersince the end of cross countryseason Kittley said.Her absence will be sorely feltKittley said because the women'sJbMBMMBBBKjJMMBgra 9HbbbbbbsbbbbbbIHBbX yYJptfiBraBMflHUp Jbbbm1bmBbmbbbbmL 'BBBBBBBMBBBBBaHBHHBwW uvB- BBBBMkl9BBBBBBIBBBXVBHBHMsBHBJBBBsjL. 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"Instead of enter-ing some guys like Mike MolotoAaron Phillips and Mike Garcia inindividual events we're just goingteam has only one other distancerunner in good health. Tinnellholds the state championship in the800 meters.The short-handedness in distancerunning only begins to reflect theoverall skimpiness of the women'steam."We've got pretty good qualitybut not much depth" Kittley said.He said he is very concerned thisseason about fielding the requirednumber of runners. NCAA re-quirements say a team must field atleast 14 runners at 10 of its meets.Kittley said he may have to runall indoor meets understaffed andwait until athletes currently com-peting in basketball are ofl-seasonand can fill in some events."We'll get a few more bodieseventually" he said. "But rightnow we're really struggling"Part of the shortage comes fromnnn iiH "Tt' rn11iF lib n Un m1-... w ivHlll llv V fJVlll-ical convention. You have peoplewho arc lobbying and politickingfor certain rules and regulations."Several issues were on the agendaduring the convention.One of the key issues voted onwas Proposition 42 which tightensthe eligibility requirements forathletes. The NCAA voted for theproposal which states an athleteto run a couple of relays."In the 3200 mile relay each run-ner will run one mile before passingthe baton to the next runner. Ed-ward Daily sophomore from Lyn-wood Calif.; Garcia senior fromAnson; Phillips freshman from LaHacienda Coricuao Venezuela; andMark Young freshman fromHaskell will run the 3200 milerelay.The distance medley relay con-sists of four teammates running adifferent distancc-800 meters 400meters 1200 meters and 1600walk-on athletes who have decidedto walk off Kittley said. Quite afew cross country athletes who werenon-scholarship have decided not torun in the spring season."It's hard when we're dependenton those kids and then they quit onus" Kittley said. "They really needto stay in an all-around program tobe competitive."Injuries have sidelined a few otherkey runners.Pam Pomeroy freshman distancerunner from Soldatna Alaska willbe out for most of the season withmononucleosis Kittley said.Laticia Christopher crucialsprinter and hurdler will remainsidelined for this meet as she recu-perates from knee surgery Kittleysaid.Christopher freshman fromDallas hit some hurdles in practiceearlier in the seasonKnnyJonMrt)ptifitfstthe ball as he trios to clearUniversity?must make at least a 15 on the ACTtest or 700 on the SAT and main-tain a 2.0 grade point average inorder to receive a scholarship orparticipate more than three years.Two proposals were introducedconcerning the amount of footballscholarships at NCAA Division IIschools. One proposal was to reducethe number of scholarships to 35while another proposed an increasemeters. Running that relav forACU will be Young Phillips Gar-cia and Moloto senior fromPraksteer South Africa.Neal Brooks sophomore from In-gleside and Tim Key freshmanfrom San Antonio will run the3200.Competing in the 55-meter dashwill be Ralph Roberts sophomorefrom San Juan Trinidad; DonaldBurke junior from Rexburg Ind.;and James Browne senior fromWhitticr Calif. Roberts and Burkeplaced first and fifth respectivelyString sectiontBKli W BBBBBBBirjir 'jtibbbbLbbbbM I & JBSR3ifcjJSIeislBWLbbbbbbbbbbbbbb. utm' iHk "iBolifP-ytjLLLMBBBBBBBBBBHkjPvMl''- H5MBKmBBBBC.!dL v jHhmP1 'lyny. "' A & K J- '?"'? &i!BBBBBBBlBbbbbbbb? 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"We're muchbetter prepared to face theseteams."The Cats met Cameron in thepreseason Lone Star Conferencetournament losing 80-75 and havewatched game films of the Aggies toprepare for the Monday game Nuttsaid.Central State is less familiar tothe Cats but Nutt said the coachesalso have digested tapes of theBronchos and feel confident in theirreadiness for Saturday's game.Central has gotten off to a some-what slow start this season madeworse by the loss of their leadingscorer point guard Reggie Evansbecause of academic ineligibility."They've been hurt" Nutt said."He was their whole difference."Evans spent the last four games oflast semester out and the Bronchoshave fallen to 3-9 overall and 0-2 inconference.Nutt said he expects the Cats tobe able to match up well on man-to-managainst the Bronchos whohave played a fairly slow-pacedgame so far this season."We do much better playingman-to-man" Nutt said. "We gettoo comfortable in a zone and westand around too much."Central and Cameron both havebeefed up their squads this seasonwith junior college transfers andNutt said the personnel changescould work for or against the Cats."You can get a bunch of good in-dividuals and not get anywhere as ateam" he said. "It's a case of toomany chiefs and not enough In-dians." The coach pointed to EasternNew Mexico as a team that haddone well with the junior collegestrategy explaining that transferscome in with more maturity andexperience and can turn a teamNCAA meetingto 45 scholarships. Both proposalswere defeated however and Divi-sion II schools will continue to have40 scholarships for football.Another proposal concerningfootball was presented and passedby the NCAA. Division II footballcoaches now will be able to attendhigh school football games toobserve potential recruits. Formerlycoaches have had to wait until Nowarm up at LCUat the Texas Tech meet lastweekend in the 55-meter dash.In the 55-meter hurdles Burke;Wendell Edwards freshman fromTennessee Colony; and JosephWilliamson senior from CoronaN.Y. are entered. All three placedin the event last weekend.Roberts and Edwards will com-fictc in the 400-meter dash for theirst time this season.In the 1000 meters Marty Cobar-rurias freshman from CorpusChristi is the Wildcats' lone entryas is Daily in the 500-meter dash.to testaround if the team gels soon enoughin the season.Cameron has done fairly wellwith its transfer squad. The Aggiesare off to a 6-8 start and split theirconference games. Nutt said theymay be the tougher of the twoOklahoma teams.He said he still thinks the Catswill be able to effectively use theirman-to-man style however.LSC notebookCameron The Aggies splittheir first two conference gamesthis season losing to East Texasin overtime and beating TexasA&I.Three starters return from theteam that went 12-2 against itsLSC competition last season andthe Aggies have added six juniorcollege recruits.The Aggies arc 6-8 so far thisseason.Central State The Bron-chos have struggled to a 3-9start dropping their first twoconference games to East Texasand Texas A&I.CSU went 5-9 against LSCopponents last season and waspicked seventh in the preseasonpoll. They averaged 88.3 pointsper game last season but haveyet to near that level this season."We're getting better" he said."If we can keep our mental com-petitiveness we'll do OK."Nutt said he thinks the experienceof playing Eastern New Mexico andWest Texas State has helped key upthe Wildcats for LSC competition."We're pretty well indoc-trinated" he said. "We've playedthe toughest teams in the league andwe played pretty well a gains.;them."He said the difficult schedule theCats have faced so far may finallystart to work for the team."We're getting to the part of theschedule where we can benefit fromthe hard work we've been goingthrough" Nutt said. "We're star-ting to really pull things together."vember to begin recruiting Drennan said."Although they won't be able tocontact the individuals they'll beable to go to football games andevaluate the prospects during thegame" Drennan explained.The NCAA also voted to allowathletes to take the ACT exam atany time before enrolling at a uni-versity. Other teams scheduled to com-pete arc Texas Tech South PlainsCollege New Mexico Junior Col-lege Odessa College Angclo Stateand host Lubbock Christian.'No team point totals will be kept."With a lot of point meets wetend to wear our guys out" Dyessaid. "If you start in January and goto point meets and continue to go topoint meets you tend to over-usepeople."All I'm asking is for these guysto compete hard and do their verybest" Dyes said.Wndy Hoinb4krOptimilCarrollton practices his ground.J. BOW.II H.MI -ii-lMMaMMS-j. f